Laurent Claes

CFO | Luxury & Fashion | People developer | Business co-construction | Impact Investor

📍 Hong Kong🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 Hong Kong
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Angel Investor
2024
⇒ Et si le monde se rapprochait de vous ? Depuis 2014, Frenchfounders a développé un réseau business francophone international de plus de 25000 leaders, dont 4000 membres décideurs et dirigeants au sein du Club, et plus de 120 entreprises partenaires. ⇒ Comment ? Frenchfounders met à disposition de ses membres et entreprises partenaires une plateforme digitale et une équipe pour faciliter les échanges et créer des opportunités business avec différentes offres comme le Club privé, le Fonds d’investissement et les Business Solutions. ⇒ Et en chiffres ? Frenchfounders, c’est le leader de l’intermédiation business francophone avec : - une équipe internationale de +80 personnes, - une présence physique dans 19 villes, - plus de 450 événements premium pour networker et rencontrer des leaders sectoriels, - et plus de 35000 mises en relation chaque année. ⇒ Ces entreprises que vous pourriez rencontrer : Contentsquare, L’Oreal, Google, Amazon, Kering, Alibaba, Warner Bros, Tikehau Capital, Sony… ⇒ En un clic …Rejoignez notre réseau, et développez de nouvelles opportunités business pour vous et votre entreprise !
Impact Investor
2024
The app for safe and personalized mobility, starting from people with motor difficulties and disabilities. WeGlad allows you to report obstacles in real time and find routes without architectural barriers. The aim is to make travel more secure and to strengthen the connection between the person with disability and the accessible place. Were now focused on retail and generally Companies and Organizations that have branches open to public, so that we map them both making measurable social impact and opening them to new markets that are actually under served.
Experience · 4 entries
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Investments (2)
2025
Volunteer to the Board of Directors
Oct 2025
Established in 1963, the French International School (FIS) was one of the first international schools in Hong Kong. Now the school is one of the largest schools in Hong Kong with over 2,700 students from Reception to Year 13/Terminale representing 40 different nationalities, across 4 campuses. Our new state-of-the-art Tseung Kwan O eco-campus opened in September 2018. FIS offers two streams of education: - The French stream linked by a Partnership status to the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) which follows the French National Education curriculum leading to the French Baccalaureate. - The International stream which follows the English curriculum leading to IGCSE in Year 11 and to the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Year 13. FIS employs around 350 professionals from various nationalities represented in its teaching, educational and administrative staff.
2024
Angel Investor
2024
⇒ Et si le monde se rapprochait de vous ? Depuis 2014, Frenchfounders a développé un réseau business francophone international de plus de 25000 leaders, dont 4000 membres décideurs et dirigeants au sein du Club, et plus de 120 entreprises partenaires. ⇒ Comment ? Frenchfounders met à disposition de ses membres et entreprises partenaires une plateforme digitale et une équipe pour faciliter les échanges et créer des opportunités business avec différentes offres comme le Club privé, le Fonds d’investissement et les Business Solutions. ⇒ Et en chiffres ? Frenchfounders, c’est le leader de l’intermédiation business francophone avec : - une équipe internationale de +80 personnes, - une présence physique dans 19 villes, - plus de 450 événements premium pour networker et rencontrer des leaders sectoriels, - et plus de 35000 mises en relation chaque année. ⇒ Ces entreprises que vous pourriez rencontrer : Contentsquare, L’Oreal, Google, Amazon, Kering, Alibaba, Warner Bros, Tikehau Capital, Sony… ⇒ En un clic …Rejoignez notre réseau, et développez de nouvelles opportunités business pour vous et votre entreprise !
Impact Investor
2024
The app for safe and personalized mobility, starting from people with motor difficulties and disabilities. WeGlad allows you to report obstacles in real time and find routes without architectural barriers. The aim is to make travel more secure and to strengthen the connection between the person with disability and the accessible place. Were now focused on retail and generally Companies and Organizations that have branches open to public, so that we map them both making measurable social impact and opening them to new markets that are actually under served.
2003
Portfolio Leader
2003
Every year, the infrastructure that powers our homes, transports our products, heals our loved ones, and keeps our societies moving forward needs a trillion dollars more investment than it gets. GE Capital wants to change that. We believe industry and finance have to speak the same language if you’re going to drive the kind of progress the world needs now. We believe our people understand exactly what it takes to make the world work better every day, everywhere, for everyone. And we believe GE’s vision is best served by a business that knows the complexity, risk and potential of everything we offer customers — because we don’t only build it, we finance it, too. It’s more important than ever that the industries sustaining our lives get the support they deserve. At GE Capital, we use the scale, intelligence and sheer inventiveness that’s in our DNA to do just that — whether it’s being the partner of choice for the first world or developing opportunities for the emerging world, we have the talent and the capability to make a better world anywhere we invest. And that’s why GE Capital is different. We’re more than a product or service. We create relationships that support the growth of every customer with whom we partner. We’re a team of the brightest minds in finance – with unmatchable expertise in the industries that matter most. And we’ve got plans for the future. The new GE Capital is aligned with GE’s industrial businesses to bring customers cutting edge financial solutions as our company continues to build, move, power and cure the world. The world we live in today, the world we want to live in tomorrow and the world whose possibilities we’re only just imagining. GE Capital.